See further down a groundbreaking empirical study on terrorist mindsets published in „Nature. Human Behaviour“ recently. Results offer new perspectives for threat assessment und prevention:

„We found that moral judgement in terrorists is abnormally guided by outcomes rather than by the integration of intentions and outcomes. This pattern was partially related to emotion recognition and proactive aggression scores but independent from other cognitive domains. In addition, moral judgement was the measure that best discriminated between terrorists and non-criminals.“ (Source: summary)

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If you are interested in the epic debates of psychodiagnostics at a distance, try this current piece in the Washington Post citing research that claims to have observed a statistical association between a large CFO-signature on official documents filed with the SEC and „creative reporting“.

Well, one thing is for sure: this will not end the discussions about pros and cons of – by the way, largely unvalidated for wider psychological claims – handwriting analysis …

Which of course, is of forensic interest, e.g., for authentification or signs of neurological disorders etc.